SSH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Milgram Experiment, Legal Personality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 100
• Professor: David Stamos

Document Summary

10/4/2012 2:19:00 pm: science of morals; study concerned with principles of human duty, the rule of conduct recognized in certain associations or departments of human life. Proper behaviour: explore standards if conduct that accord with moral principles, is contentious. When people speak, everything is personal: comedians, writers, they talk about their personal life which spill onto other peoples privacy (family, friends, ethics of compassion, ethics of friendship. But there are expectations: from a friend, as a friends, sometimes measured. Never official: no contract, no codes are sorted out, ethical hypocrisy, things of same origins have different views. Alcohol vs. drugs: ethics of truth. Speaking truth to power is hard: ethics and the stories we tell ourselves, we never reach the standards we set ourselves, ethics and academic integrity, the ethical student, plagiarism. Claiming someone else"s idea as your own. Anti plagiarism only started when file sharing became an issue. Variations: when is it stealing, depends who owns it.